Bitesize: Public health in the 19th century
c1830-1900 · Resource
Edexcel revision guide on Snow and the Broad Street pump, Chadwick's Sanitary Report, the cholera epidemics, Bazalgette's London sewers and the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875.
On these timelines: BBC Bitesize (revision guides), Resources: Combined
Around 1855
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)